Interview: Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984
Title
Interview: Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984
Subject
African American families
African Americans--Employment.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.
African Americans--Southern States.
African Americans--Politics and government.
African American churches
Depressions--1929.
United States--Race relations.
Description
Born and raised on a sharecroppers' farm near Petersburg, Virginia, Fannie Hutchinson (1905-1990) was one of sixteen children. In her 1984 interview, Hutchinson spoke of how she started to work at the age of thirteen to help support her family, her move to Philadelphia in 1926, the limits placed upon her by an overprotective uncle, and her experiences as a servant and factory worker. By the 1940s she owned her own grocery and luncheonette in West Philadelphia.
Date
1984-06-25
Format
audio
Identifier
2014OH171GN023
Interviewer
Charles Hardy
Interviewee
Fannie Hutchinson
OHMS Object
Interview Keyword
African Americans--Education.
African American leadership
African American clergy.
House cleaning.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
Files
Citation
“Interview: Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984,” Goin' North, accessed June 2, 2023, https://www.goinnorth.org/items/show/1057.